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Tank Alert: Did Etsy IPO Too Soon?
Thursday, August 6, 2015 - 3:52pm | 260Etsy Inc (NASDAQ: ETSY) is ailing. The peer-to-peer ecommerce site tumbled 28 percent on Wednesday after investors reacted to worse-than-expected Q2 earnings. The company has had a rough first few months on the NASDAQ. Trading under $14 per share, Etsy is now pegged by the market as worth less...
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IPO Lite? A New Way For Firms To Seek Public Financing
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 2:48pm | 441The U.S. government on Friday is set to enact one of two outstanding titles of the US JOBS Act. Regulation A+ is an update to the outdated Regulation A, which allowed a company to raise up to $5 million in public capital over a 12-month period without launching an IPO. Under Regulation A+, the...
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EquityZen: A Stock Market For Private Companies
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 12:08pm | 414Among the contestants for the Benzinga Fintech Awards is EquityZen, a marketplace for secondary investments in $50 million private companies and startups. Benzinga recently interviewed EquityZen CEO, Atish Davda. Here is what Davda had to say about his company and its future prospects. What...